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[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

We peaked with screensaver technology with the one with all those pipes

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

You joke but way back in the day those 3D pipes caused a little IT chaos...

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Their story may be embellished but the problem was legitimate at one point.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

After dark flying toasters.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I found a few of these old screensavers and another one which lets you have a random selection between like 10 of them. It all still works on Windows 11

Starfield, 3d pipes and flying toasters are amongst the selection, I couldn't seem to get Jonny castaway working unfortunately

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Hey, my Matrix code screensaver ca. 2002 was the shit. Granted, I probably got three different viruses downloading it for three hours over our landline.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I wonder how much time I clocked watching that

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Puhleeze.

Homer Simpsons eating my screen was the peak of screen savers.

Though, I guess it wasn't much of a 'saver' if it was being eaten...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I submit for consideration the Monty Python screensavers which were actually playable games.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Rumor is if you change the elbows to have those knobs on the elbow you can see a toilet randomly show up after 3 hours!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Windows NT 3.51 gang represent!

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It is sad this screensaver has not carried over to the latest versions of Windows. Maybe a 4k remaster is needed.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Oh my nostalgia.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I miss screensavers.

God I wish there was a modern day version of that one of the shipwrecked guy on the island, that was all animated and full of story elements.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Best money I've ever spent on steam is for wallpaper engine. Check it out.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I just looked at wallpaper engine and..uh.. yeah, thats an awful lot of semi-naked cartoon women.

Soooo.. I think I'll pass.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Don't worry, there is naked cartoon women too.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Screensavers still exist in Windows, you know. I use one for my OLED.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I would sit and watch that thing like a movie lol.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I spent many hours while home sick just lying down and watching Johnny Castaway. I've had his hum stuck in my head... forever.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Damn, I'm sure we had a computer running Windows 3.1 at some point when I was a kid, but I guess we didn't have any fun stuff. Lol

I remember playing DOS games, and then there's a gap, and the first windows I remember was probably win95

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I remember 3 things about windows 3.1

The simplicity of the layout.

Spending hours ooing and awwing over Encarta Encyclopedia on CD

and playing a starwars game that I cant for the life of me remember anything about other than flying through a canyon as the first level, and being too dumb and uncoordinated to actually complete the level and not crash.

Computing was so much more interesting and entertaining back then.. Now its so boring, everything drowning in same-ness.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Same with shopping, cities, the internet, TV/movies, etc.

I crave novelty and variety, damn it.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

tell me about it.. Like, in the 80s and 90s when stores had wild and radical design asthetics and were awesome places to wander around... and now they are all the same boring off white blandness.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Wolfenstein at home must be the 3D Maze screensaver

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Wolfenstein 3D is older than that.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, it is... So?

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

lol so are we

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As an out-of-the-loop 90s-enthusiast, this is exactly what I think of when all these kids on my lawn keep going on about Starfield.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

They should at least have the decency to name it Starfield 2

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Looks equally as engrossing.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Microsoft is also bundling Starfield the game just as they did the screensaver. Included in Game Pass and you can play the PC version on GeForce Now.

I just found that funny.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'd rather play Flying Toasters personally.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I lol'd a little too hard at this one.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

this really made me laugh harder than it should have

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

When is Bethesda gonna release Mystery

[-] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

Normalize the death of screen savers. How much c02 is generated displaying nonsense instead of simply putting the monitor and/or computer to sleep after X minutes

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Hasn't this already happened? I don't see screensaver very often anymore.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Dude, I haven't used a screen saver since 98SE, although I live in a country where we do utilize things like nuclear, wind, solar and hydroelectric

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